Re: [help-recutils] Select records by number

[F.]

Jose E. Marchesi <address@hidden> a écrit le 2012-01-08 14:09:14 +0100 : 

>     
> Well, both facilities are now implemented, documented and tested in the
> git repo.

Big kudo to you Jose \o/ 

> 
> Some remarks:
> 
> - The -n option now accepts a list of indexes N1,N2,N3,... where each
>   index can be a range with the form MIN-MAX.
>
> - The random option uses the switch --random or -m (-r was taken in some
>   of the utilities for other purposes).
> 
> Note that the utilities supporting those options are recsel, recins
> (replace mode), recdel and recset.  So it is now possible to:
> 
> Replace random records:
> 
>   $ recins -m 2 -f FieldNmae -v Value
> 
> Delete or comment-out random records:
> 
>   $ recdel -m 5 foo.rec
> 
> Operate on the fiels of random records:
> 
>   $ recset -m 5 -f FieldName -r NewFieldName
> 
> Please send any bug report to address@hidden

It's exactly what I need, so now need to rm my so beautiful bash script.
Do you plan an official version soon ?

Best reagrds,
F.